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Empires and encounters : 1350-1750

Title
Empires and encounters : 1350-1750 / edited by Wolfgang Reinhard.
Publication
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2015.

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Additional Authors
Reinhard, Wolfgang.
Description
vii, 1,152 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm.
Summary
"Empires and Encounters presents information on different aspects of human life in all parts of the world from the period 1350 to 1750. In the first centuries of that period people of different parts of the world were not only culturally different but also knew little or even nothing of each other. The Incas for instance had no idea of the existence of Europeans or Africans and vice versa. Inside large regions of the world, however, political interaction, as well as economic and cultural exchange, had been going on for many centuries and was during this period increasing in intensity because this was a time of worldwide empire-building. The chapters of the book examine Eurasia between Japan and Russia; the Ottoman and Iranian Empires of the Muslim world; Mughal India and the trading world of the Indian Ocean; the multicolored world of maritime Southeast Asia and Oceania; and the continents on both sides of the Atlantic under the growing impact of Europe. Europe at this time had no privileged power position, but it did enjoy a special role in establishing regular maritime interaction across the Atlantic and worldwide between the five macro-regions of the globe. The European world economy, based upon the silver of Spanish America, initiated modern globalization"--Provided by publisher.
Series Statement
A history of the world
Uniform Title
  • Weltreiche und Weltmeere.
  • History of the world (Belknap Press)
Subject
  • 1500 - 1799
  • World history
  • Middle Ages
  • History, Modern > 16th century
  • History, Modern > 17th century
  • History, Modern > 18th century
  • Imperialism > History
  • International relations > History
  • Regionalism > History
  • Acculturation > History
  • Commerce > History
  • Acculturation
  • Commerce
  • History, Modern
  • Imperialism
  • International relations
  • Regionalism
  • Histoire universelle
  • Moyen âge
  • Impérialisme > Histoire
  • Relations internationales > Histoire
  • Régionalisme > Histoire
  • Acculturation > Histoire
  • Commerce > Histoire
Genre/Form
History.
Note
  • Co-published in German as Weltreiche und Weltmeere : 1350-1750, by C.H. Beck Verlag, 2014.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Empires and frontiers in continental Eurasia / Peter C. Perdue -- The Ottoman Empire and the Islamic world / Suraiya Faroqhi -- South Asia and the Indian Ocean / Stephan Conermann -- Southeast Asia and Oceania / Reinhard Wendy and Jürgen G. Nagel -- Europe and the Atlantic world / Wolfgang Reinhard.
Call Number
JFE 15-3808
ISBN
  • 9780674047198
  • 0674047192
LCCN
2014040716
OCLC
893709457
Title
Empires and encounters : 1350-1750 / edited by Wolfgang Reinhard.
Publisher
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2015.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
A history of the world
History of the world (Belknap Press)
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chronological Term
1500 - 1799
Added Author
Reinhard, Wolfgang.
Added Title
Weltreiche und Weltmeere.
Research Call Number
JFE 15-3808
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